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SubjectRe: [2.6.8.1-mm1][input] - IBM TouchPad support added? Which patch is this? - Unsure still
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On Friday 03 September 2004 02:12 am, Frank Steiner wrote:
> Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > On Tuesday 17 August 2004 03:02 am, Shawn Starr wrote:
> >
> >>Sorry, I stand corrected. I don't know where this patch is added from which
> >>enables the touchpad to act as a 'button press'.
> >>
> >
> >
> > mousedev now does tap emulation for touchpads working in absolute mode
> > (Synaptics) so you don't need to use psmouse.proto= parameter to force
> > it in PS/2 compatibility mode. Use mousedev.tap_time= option to control
> > it.
> >
> > The patch is only in -mm at the moment.
>
> Can that patch be downloaded somewhere to patch against 2.6.8.1? I don't
> have any tapping support for my synaptic touchpad on my compaq laptop after
> switching from 2.4 to 2.6.
> It seems that most of the patches at http://www.geocities.com/dt_or/input/2_6_7/
> are already in 2.6.8.1: Just the tapping stuff seems to be missing. And
> I can't extract your patch from the 2.6.9-rc1-mm2 stuff, because it seems
> to be mixed with some other patches there.
> Is there a sole version of this patch fir 2.6.8.1 somewhere?
>

No, I don't think I have one... If you are using BitKeeper, yo could just do:

bk pull bk://dtor.bkbits.net/input

But have you tried installing XFree86/XOrg Synaptics driver
(http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/index.html)?
It does support tapping just fine...

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Dmitry
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